Totally seperate root directories is not helping me. What I want to be able todo is have a seperate FTP that will login to a specific folder on my master account, say “my_data” for instance. Also this folder is accessable via FTP only, and NOT via www.mywebsite.com/my_data

E.g.

So when I login to my master account I see:

/home/masteraccount/mywebsite.com/
/home/masteraccount/my_data/

Then create a seperate secondary FTP login that connects to the “my_data” folder as the root. Finally configure this account so it has READ ONLY access. No ability to create or delete files/directories. So my master FTP account login can only be used to change the my_data folder contents.

I am currently writing up a suggestion for a better ftp system that allows for this type of thing. I would suggest that you and everyone else should vote for the suggestion to show DH that we really want an improved (normal) ftp system.